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Storyteller.net: Storytelling, Storytellers, Stories, Story, Storytelling Techniques, H... - 0 views

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    Welcome to the audio stories section, here is a current list of all of our audio stories. For best results, you should be using Internet Explorer. You will also need the FREE Windows Media player that is available at http://www.windowsmedia.com.
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Search Results | Gizmodo Australia - 0 views

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    "  GadgetsMobileGeek OutOnlineScienceCamerasComputingGamingEntertainmentSoftwareCarsNews TOP STORIES The New Essential Apps July 2012 NASA Had No Idea How To Save Apollo 13, But An MIT Student Reportedly Did Australian Doomsday Group Building Bunker In Regional NSW: Report Microsoft's New Windows 8 Activation Policy Aims To Curb Expected Piracy Watch The Mars Curiosity Rover Landing Live With Gizmodo Australia HTC One S Review: The Goldilocks Smartphone The New Essential Apps July 2012 NASA Had No Idea How To Save Apollo 13, But An MIT Student Reportedly Did Australian Doomsday Group Building Bunker In Regional NSW: Report Microsoft's New Windows 8 Activation Policy Aims To Curb Expected Piracy Watch The Mars Curiosity Rover Landing Live With Gizmodo Australia REGULARS Week In Review All the week's most popular news. Shooting Challenge Shooting Challenge: This week's theme is 'Depth of Field' - Enter Here Monster Machines This robot sub can chart nearly every inch of the ocean. Whitenoise Where Giz readers talk about stuff we're not already posting about Building A Solar Challenge Car What do other teams do when they build a solar car? Lunchtime Deal Dell Streak 7 - phablet nostalgia: now on special! App Deals Aussie Lingo, Awesome Mails HD, Call of Duty and more. Breakfast Wrap Don't miss the weekend's top stories. How To Start Your Own Brewery Meet Andy Mitchell. Week In Review All the week's most popular news. Shooting Challenge Shooting Challenge: This week's theme is 'Depth of Field' - Enter Here Monster Machines This robot sub can chart nearly every inch of the ocean. Whitenoise Where Giz readers talk about stuff we're not already posting about Building A Solar Challenge Car What do other teams do when they build a solar car? Lunchtime Deal Dell Streak 7 - phablet nostalgia: now on special! App Deals Aussie Lingo, Awesome Mails HD, Call of Duty and more. Breakfast Wrap Don't miss the weekend's top stories. SEARCH RESULTS GEEK OUT Should You Che
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Free Technology for Teachers: Thematic - A Nice Tool for Creating Visual Stories - 6 views

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    Thematic is a new service designed for building and sharing visual stories. Thematic allows you to display up to twenty pictures organized around a theme of your choosing. You can add one line of text to each image in your story. Your completed story is displayed in a vertically scrolling format with each of your images occupying all of the available space in your browser.
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Personalized Story Books for Children with Photos - 0 views

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    Personalized story books for children with photo, great gift idea for kids! Offering fun and exciting stories all about your special baby, personalized baby books are becoming more and more popular.
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Stipple - Your information and images together again. - 29 views

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    The Stipple Viewer reveals the story inside images as you browse the web. Have you ever wondered what's inside an image? Stipple helps you answer the who, what, when, and where. Mouse over to reveal the story Mouseover the image to reveal its story.
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Digital Booktalk - 1 views

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    UCF - imilar to movie trailers, video book trailers are short, minute and a half to two-minute videos that introduce the basic storyline. They differ from book reports captured on video in that in these productions the story is re-enacted with artistic and creative decisions made by the director as to what parts of the story are presented.\n\nTEACHERS: Are you interested in creating your own book trailers and posting the on this site? UB the Director is a curriculum model that answers the inevitable question from your students: "Why do I have to read the book if I can watch the movie about it instead?" Our curriculum teaches you and your students how to visualize the books being read and how to utilize the story invention process to create your own video book trailers. By registering, we will provided guidance on how to create video book trailers and how to add them to the Newbie's Corner our site.
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Fantasy and Magical Story Books for Children - 0 views

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    Brilliant book suggestions for children. See our recommended books for 6-12 year olds and find the best fantasy and magic stories for your child.
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Laser Lace Letters - 7 Tangible Steampunk Stories by Haley Moore - Kickstarter - 10 views

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    Kickstarter project: Laser Lace Letters is a series of tangible stories where you become a steampunk detective on the trail of a string of mysterious disappearances. At the heart of each story is a beautiful, laser cut cameo handmade in felt by artist Haley Moore.
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Best Personalized & Magical Story Books for Babies - 0 views

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    My Kingdom Books creates beautifully designed personalized children's story books and then we bring them to life through the magic of 3D animation and AR.
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Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories - 0 views

  • The man shrugged and replied, �In a year, the king may die. In a year, I may die. In a year, the horse may talk!�
  • Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
  • connects the information people and the story people
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  • May 15, 1924 issue of Library Journal, Helen E. Haines wrote about contemporary fiction
  • It offers constant problems and perplexities
  • strong role in domesticating
  • Booklist, Bill Ott, likes to say that librarians are divided into information people and story people
  • Librarians, historically, have been at the place where new formats and new technologies happen to people in their daily lives.
  • Plato was concerned that the new-fangled idea of writing stuff down would dilute scholarship and make men lazy
  • even the best of writings are but a reminiscence of what we know, and that only in principles of justice and goodness and nobility taught and communicated orally
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      I thought perhaps she would extend the You-Tube example back to the oral and getting away from the written word
  • change is our only certainty
  • argued between those who consider all fiction foul or useless and those who see no harm in it at all
  • Jamie Larue, director of the Douglas Public Library in Castle Rock, Colorado, calls librarians �the keepers of the books, the answerers of questions, and the tellers of tales.
  • Our job is to keep ideas and make them available.
  • Le Guin's words remind me of is how important it is to keep ideas that we do not comprehend, or believe in, or agree with; to keep them safe, and to keep them available. If librarians don't do this, who will? There is no other profession enjoined to preserve and disseminate all the truths of humankind that is our job.
  • also need to remember that some ideas thought worthless today may turn out to be the bedrock of tomorrow's truths
  • available not just good ideas and noble ideas, but bad ideas and silly ideas and yes, even dangerous and wicked ideas.
  • librarianship is the connecting of people to ideas
  • readers need to have available to them truth in all its myriad guises, light and dark, easy and difficult
  • core values of librarianship are access and service
  • always like to mention a few books that I think my audiences would enjoy
  • Susan Patron's The Higher Power of Lucky.
  • Ann Bausum's With Courage and Cloth
  • Guy Gavriel Kay's Ysabel
  • nformation person and a story person
  • Technology is our campfire. Change is what happens:
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    ©2007 GraceAnne Andreassi DeCandido MLS
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Lit2Go: MP3 Stories and Poems - 1 views

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    Database of free onlione stories and poems. Browse by author, title, search the database or dowload to iTunes. You can also view stories online or print pdf pages.
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StoriesFrom | New Media. Better World. - 2 views

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    Through rich stories written and recorded by local community members, StoriesFrom gives the most underrepresented a space to shape their own story. In a world where mainstream media often filters and dictates news, StoriesFrom empowers individuals to speak their truth, while providing a space for exploration and connection to wide reaching audiences. From the young Kosovo generation redefining their identity, to boarding schools where Native Americans were stripped of theirs, to Palestinians and Kurds fighting for a place of their own, StoriesFrom seeks to connect us all.
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StoriesFrom | At The Table In Riga - 0 views

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    Through rich stories written and recorded by local community members, StoriesFrom gives the most underrepresented a space to shape their own story. In a world where mainstream media often filters and dictates news, StoriesFrom empowers individuals to speak their truth, while providing a space for exploration and connection to wide reaching audiences. From the young Kosovo generation redefining their identity, to boarding schools where Native Americans were stripped of theirs, to Palestinians and Kurds fighting for a place of their own, StoriesFrom seeks to connect us all.
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Popular Magical Story Books - 0 views

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    A beautiful personalised children's book where the story uses each letter of the child's name. Perfect for a Christening Gift, Birthday or Just a Treat.
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Storycorps Animated Shorts - 0 views

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    StoryCorps' original animated shorts series features some of their best-loved radio stories. Includes animated stories about 9/11, immigration, family, school, disabilities, etc.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Inspire Students to Read and Travel With The Global Books... - 11 views

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    The Global Bookshelf is a book search and recommendation engine that was started by my friend Gillian Duffy. The purpose of The Global Bookshelf is to help people find travel stories. The books you'll find aren't travel guides, they're travel stories that could inspire you to visit a new place and experience a new culture. You can browse The Global Bookshelf by region, genre, and book format (Kindle, PDF, physical book).
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BBC Schools - Musical Mysteries - Home Page - 5 views

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    Interactive story for juniors from BBC. Provides example then encourages reader to build their own components into the story. Good for early readers.
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Circulate This! Stories from the School Library - 0 views

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    "We have created an audio magazine in which we tell the stories of the importance of school libraries and teacher librarians via interviews with teacher librarians, library staff, teachers, community members, parents, administrators, and most importantly, students. The format is along the lines of a 'This American Life' type of audio journal with a narrator, who sets the tone, describes the dilemma, and sets the stage for each interview. Each is short but dramatic and powerful. The intent is to distribute the audio journal widely on radio and across the Internet -- go 'viral' as create CDs to hand to legislators and decision-making administrators. Teacher librarians and others are able to download the journal and burn CDs to distribute to their local administrators and parents. stories from: Dr. Doug Achterman, Glen Warren, David Burt, Winny Duffy, Heather Keaton, APRIL Wayland, Manuel PEREZ, Dr. Leslie Farmer, Donald Gill, Jeanne NELSON, Anne Birchfield, Hannah Jackson, Kathy Green, and Sophie.
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Digital Storytelling Teacher Guide - 0 views

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    Download an e-book, watch videos, and use tempates from teachers to learn how to use Windows Live Movie Maker and other tools to make learning more personal with pictures and movies in your classroom." />Stylesheet
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Bib 2.0: Content Curation and the Research Story - 21 views

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    "One of our most difficult jobs as information specialists is helping students not just make sense of their findings, but of fitting them into the larger context of the story they're trying to tell. "
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